My dad works in radio, I didn't have a problem listening to him on air when he was at work. But the first time I heard him "on the radio" when he was at the house I got freaked out and thought that dad was a ventriloquist.
A childhood belief about radio

others believed things like this
- When listening to the radio in the mornings I felt sorry for singers they had to come and sing that early. — Tereza
- I could never work out how they used to change the bands over so quickly when i listened to the radio— graham
- I use to believe all the people singing on the radio were IN the radio.— Yvonne
- I swear I heard a Disney Channel/Radio Disney song where the chorus was a repeated “Damn it”— SpengBab
- I thought if something was radioactive it meant if you turn on a radio near it it would blow up— Nate
- My parents used to have an old radio. I thought it could only play old songs, like from when they were young.— kathy